Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 From http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gas/config/tc-arm.c.diff?r1=1.168&r2=1.169&cvsroot=src
2 See also http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2004-July/023128.html,
3 "[CRITICAL PATCH] 2.6: fix silent build error]"
5 Revision 1.169, Fri Jul 2 11:12:29 2004 UTC (19 hours, 4 minutes ago) by nickc
7 CVS Tags: binutils_latest_snapshot, HEAD
8 Changes since 1.168: +14 -1 lines
10 (md_apply_fix3:BFD_RELOC_ARM_IMMEDIATE): Do not allow values which have come
11 from undefined symbols.
12 Always consider this fixup to have been processed as a reloc cannot be
16 ===================================================================
17 RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gas/config/tc-arm.c,v
18 retrieving revision 1.168
19 retrieving revision 1.169
20 diff -u -r1.168 -r1.169
21 --- src/gas/config/tc-arm.c 2004/04/30 10:51:12 1.168
22 +++ src/gas/config/tc-arm.c 2004/07/02 11:12:29 1.169
23 @@ -12186,6 +12186,20 @@
24 switch (fixP->fx_r_type)
26 case BFD_RELOC_ARM_IMMEDIATE:
27 + /* We claim that this fixup has been processed here,
28 + even if in fact we generate an error because we do
29 + not have a reloc for it, so tc_gen_reloc will reject it. */
33 + && ! S_IS_DEFINED (fixP->fx_addsy))
35 + as_bad_where (fixP->fx_file, fixP->fx_line,
36 + _("undefined symbol %s used as an immediate value"),
37 + S_GET_NAME (fixP->fx_addsy));
41 newimm = validate_immediate (value);
42 temp = md_chars_to_number (buf, INSN_SIZE);
44 @@ -12202,7 +12216,6 @@
46 newimm |= (temp & 0xfffff000);
47 md_number_to_chars (buf, (valueT) newimm, INSN_SIZE);
51 case BFD_RELOC_ARM_ADRL_IMMEDIATE: